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Wookies in Wisconsin

Published by digby on May 5, 2015

Wookies in Wisconsin

 by digby

This is so weird:

Ok, for those of you who don’t speak Star Wars, Simon Maloy explains:

There is nothing good about this tweet. It’s just terrible on every level.

First off, the message it sends is thoroughly confusing. The lines Team Walker quoted are spoken by Obi-Wan Kenobi’s ghost and Yoda in “The Empire Strikes Back” as Luke Skywalker cuts short his Jedi training to rashly confront Darth Vader. Obi-Wan bemoans that Luke is probably going to get killed or be turned to the Dark Side and the Jedi will be screwed, and Yoda reminds him that they have another potential savior-in-waiting, Luke’s twin sister Leia.

The situation Team Walker has presented would seem to put the governor in the role of Leia. And that’s cool – Leia’s an ass-kicker in her own right. But that doesn’t make any sense politically. In Yoda’s mind, Leia was there as the backup to Luke. He wasn’t bringing her up as the person who would emerge as the hero at the end of the day, he was just trying to reassure his despairing ghost companion that they had a fallback in case Plan A went to shit, which certainly seemed to be happening at that point in the movie. So the message from Team Walker is that their guy is the last-resort candidate, the person Republicans will turn to only when their preferred candidate commits one too many gaffes or is dismembered by a lightsaber-wielding cyborg.

NARAL responded perfectly:

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